NFL sends awful message with Rice suspension

Repeat offenders of the drug policy are subject to four-game suspensions. A violent tackle, done in the course of a game, will draw a single game suspension. Selling your autograph while still in college? That will get you five games off.

But in the NFL’s court, hitting a woman so hard that she becomes unconscious and has to be dragged out of an elevator only gets you a two-game suspension.